Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen say they n’t nfirm if their characters 'The Ln Kg' are gay or not, but they do feel we need more LGBTQ reprentatn on screen.
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ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
"I don’t re if Bert and Ernie are gay. I want to see actual gay people," said the edian, who voic Timon the Disney remake. * gay characters in lion king *
” The character was famoly origated by openly gay actor Nathan Lane, five years before g out publicly The Advote 1999. Eichner, who is also gay, recently spoke to Buzzfeed about takg on a role so fed by another actor.
“I’m glad that [director] Jon Favre kept the tradn of Timon beg played by a gay actor, wh a certa type of edic sensibily, alive, ” Eichner said. “Gay people always had to sort of search for the closeted gay character, bee there were no openly gay characters, and we were so thirsty for them, ” he said. “People are always tryg to fd the gay character animated movi.
"THE LN KG" CHARACTER OFTEN NSIRED A GAY IN CROSSWORD CLUE
Few Disney characters are explicly clared to be gay by the stud, but viewers have picked up on "gay dg." CBR explor. * gay characters in lion king *
I thk the way to rrect that is to actually put gay characters animated movi. Takg a swipe at the first of Disney’s live-actn remak, Eichner referenced the blk-and-you’ll-miss- “exclively gay moment” (as touted by the movie’s out gay director Bill Condon) 2017’s “Bety and the Beast. “I would love to see a world where we don’t have to argue about, you know, whether what’s his name ‘Bety and the Beast’ is gay or not.
"Jafar's orig story is that he's gay and pissed." * gay characters in lion king *
It jt should be gay, ” he said. I don’t re if Bert and Ernie are gay. I want to see actual gay people that are not a mystery.
The way to move on om all those bat is to jt create openly gay characters children’s programmg and fay entertament.
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Eichner says the characters aren’t gay, cg the ethil plitns of an terspeci relatnship. While Eichner don’t play the role as gay,. “I didn’t thk about him beg gay so much as I thought, Well, I’m gay, and I have what some may nsir a gay sensibily, and I’m gog to brg that to the table, jt the way that Nathan did.
In his terview wh BuzzFeed News, Eichner ma clear he nsirs the man who origated the role of Timon the 1994 origal animated versn of The Ln Kg, Broadway in Nathan Lane, to be a personal idol of his — as an actor and as a gay man. You know, I’m glad that Jon Favre kept the tradn of Timon beg played by a gay actor, wh a certa type of edic sensibily, was also the quasi ntroversy wh the origal Ln Kg about Sr beg d as gay — even though he’s, you know, a rtoon ln. People are always tryg to fd the gay character animated movi.
Well, that really opened the door to more gay rats gettg married, which I really yeah, gay people always had to sort of search for the closeted gay character, bee there were no openly gay characters, and we were so thirsty for them. I would love to see a world where we don’t have to argue about, you know, whether what’s his name Bety and the Beast is gay or not.